Search Results: Titles starting with O from Sky Duthie Rare Books

[Madrid]: Turner., 2008.. Limited edition, number 214 of 500 copies printed. 25.5 x 18.5cm. Publisher's original dark green paper-covered boards with printed paper title labels in red and black to the upper board and spine, in dustwrapper. Pages untrimmed and unopened. Printed on laid paper. Title page in red and black. 129pp. Publisher's statement loosely laid in. A near fine copy, the binding square and firm; the contents clean and crisp throughout. The dustwrapper with a mark to the front panel and a little wear to the extremities is otherwise in good order. A nicely produced English-Italian bilingual edition of the Spanish poet Luis Cernuda's collection of prose poems 'Ocnos'.Part of the publisher's 'Colección Itálica' series.

[Original manuscript]., [1865]. Oblong (41.5 x 27.5cm). Early twentieth-century half brown morocco over brown linen; the boards ruled in gilt; the spine with five raised bands, ruled in gilt. Top edge gilt. Marbled endpapers. Engraved armorial bookplate for William Henry Willatt of Reighton Hall, East Yorkshire, to the front pastedown. Manuscript introductory note in ink by W. H. Willatt (the creator, Isaac Willatt's, son) dated 1934, affixed to the front free endpaper, and with additional presentation note to his grandaughter verso. The contents comprising 22 sheets of thick paper, each with a fine pen and ink drawing by Isaac Willatt to the recto (versos blank), numbered and captioned beneath. Condition is very good, the binding square and tight with a couple of minor marks to the upper board and a little rubbing to the extremities. The contents with a diagonal crease to the blank front endpaper, some light scattered foxing and occasional finger-marking to page margins are otherwise in very good… Read More

[Original artwork]., [1968].. Pen and ink drawing forming the front and rear cover design for Goodall's book The Adventures of Paddy Pork (1968), depicting the eponymous Paddy skipping down a country lane to a fairground (right-hand side/front cover) and a village scene with other anthropomorphised animal inhabitants (left-hand side/rear cover). To the left is a blank space for the book's titles to be placed; here the faint traces of titles in pencil can be seen but have been subsequently rubbed-out by the artist. The image measuring 38 x 14.5cm. Signed by the artist in ink to the lower left ("John S. Goodall"). There are a few discreet pinholes to the margins, otherwise condition is excellent - the image remaining clean and bright. A splendid, typically playful pen and ink drawing by the artist, illustrator and author John Strickland Goodall (1908-1996) forming the original cover design for his most famous work, The Adventures of Paddy Pork (1968).A charming wordless children's picture book, the… Read More